Fruits Basket Fan Fic
Recollections of a broken memory
Chapter One
A Yellow Ribbon for Yuki
The forest rustled with the late afternoon sounds. Unlike most parts of the city, this forest didn't seem to hold the sounds of young children playing and couples on a romantic walk. A narrow path lead though the forest to the house near the middle, and several other paths leaning off to other places started at that house. The only people living in the house where three men, three cursed men with a secrete to hide. No one came to the house unless they were family members, so it meant that the cat the rat and the dog had hardly any visitors.
Yuki walked down the forest path feeling the wind blow through his silvery purple hair. He had been to the house to change and grab a bag. He had seen neither Kyo nor Shigure on his way from the house to the forest.
Why do I feel like something is missing? He thought to himself as he turned the corner to his secrete base, shaking his head to get the gloomy thoughts from his mind.
He had finished weeding and watering his plants and was now about to set himself of picking the leeks, which we ready to be eaten. He slowly bent down on to his knees and began putting the leeks in to the bag he had bought along with him. As he was doing so something colourful caught his eye, distracting him from his job.
What's that? He asked him self, leaning over to pick up the yellow ribbon which was caught among the leeks.
He held the ribbon in his hand, trying to figure out where it had come from. Only he knew where his secrete base was and he was puzzled by the fact that a girl's yellow ribbon had found its self tangled in amongst the leeks.
"Yuki-Kun!" A voice cut his thoughts bringing back to reality.
That voice! Thought Yuki, it sounds familiar. Yuki looked around, trying to find where the sound was coming from, but hundreds of dense trees surrounded him blocking his view and making it hard to tell. Maybe I just imagined it, he thought as he looked back down at the ribbon.
"Yuki-Kun! What's wrong? Do you feel okay?" The voice returned again, this time sounding concerned.
Yuki looked around him, desperate to find where the voice was coming from. "Stop it" he shouted leaning back down and putting his head in his hand hoping that the voice would go away and leave him in peace.
"You could have laughed in front of me," The voice said kindly, as an image swam in to Yuki's mind suddenly. He saw a girl with flowing brown hair, wearing a bright spring yukata with a Sakura tree on it. She was standing with her back to him, in the late evening, a yellow ribbon tied in her long hair. "Yuki-Kun!"
"Stop it" Yuki shouted again screwing his eyes up to try and block out the images, but this only caused everything around him to go black and silent.
Only the yellow ribbon, floating in the wind witnessed Yuki collapse on the ground near the small patch of leeks.
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"Kyo, be a dear and get you poor old uncle Shigure some thing to eat" Wailed Shigure from his study
"Get that damn Rat to." Kyo shouted back, poking his head around the door, a cartoon of milk in his hand already opened.
"But my dearest Yuki has not come home yet," Shigure continued to whine.
Both the Dog and the Cat turned at the sound of a closing door and the soft padding of feet on the wooden tatami mats. The both watched the door slide open and a filthy and very muddy Yuki walk in, carrying a basket of leeks.
Shigure burst out laughing. "Ha Ha!" he shouted, "What happened to you?"
"I slipped" Yuki simply replied putting the basket on the floor. "Also I think I must have banged my head as I have a really bad headache. I'm going to bed," Yuki said turning around and heading up the stairs to his room.
"Don't expect me to take care of him," Kyo said heading for the roof leaving Shigure laughing in his study where his work awaited him.
What happened? Yuki thought lying on his bed looking up at the ceiling, slightly confused, that voice…. He turned over and pulled the covers over him, hoping that by morning he might have forgotten what had happened today.
A/N: This is out first joint fan fic, so don't worry if its toooo confusing for you. I am the editor and I kinda make it more Japanese. Hey I thought I was the office decoration and you were the writer. Yeah ok then I write you post works for me. I did write this chapter with your help though. Yeah it seems I'm more skilled at English as well as honourifics. Oh well looks like were gonna have to work together on this one then. Yep or confuse everyone with your bad use of Japanese words. Lol true.